"Please send your signature to privacy AT Datos-personales dot org"
Hey, I thought it was the World PRIVACY Day? No way I'm sending them my signature -- heck, today I decline to sign ANYTHING :)
"Sorry Officer, I will not sign this speeding ticket. Not today, we have the World Privacy Day. No, I'm afraid I cannot show you my ID either. Not today"

Today startpage.com introduced a proxy service, being creative you can use it to search websites fully via as a virtual proxy, don't forget to enable the https (https://startpage.com/) so your ISP has no logs either... Though is seems to have been set up to prevent logging into any service such as email, by disabling text entry into forms.

"Additional notes and restrictions:
- For security reasons, you cannot use the proxy to fill out forms with text input.
- The proxy removes the "javascript" code of visited sites, so some features may not work.
- The proxy will not load frames that reside on a different external domain than the referrer. "http://eu.startpage.com/proxy/eng/help.html

It's not funny. After all the website security and procedures, our web hosting company (a huge North American provider) sends out user names and passwords plaintext by Email. When asked to stop they say "No" because they don't see an issue with it. When confronted, they actually argued that "Email is secure". Good grief. Last year City Hall nearby sent out tens of thousands of tax statements with SS numbers plastered on the front in plain view. It took some lawyers to "explain it to 'em". Good grief. What's the point of debating whether privacy is dead or not. It's not funny.

Well, since it was World Privacy Day and World Irony Day, we threw a big privacy party that was open to everyone. Lots of nice drinks to keep lips tight, facebook to keep a low social profile, and the cops definitely didn't show up [twice]. ;)